Susan Maroto, L.C.S.W.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Eating disorders often emerge as a response to other problems. When people are upset or overwhelmed, they develop coping mechanisms, sometimes destructive ones. Some control their eating and weight as a response to scary situations over which they have no control or fall into "emotional eating" rather than eating when hungry. Susan helps people learn the source of their food issues. By learning to manage and be more comfortable with a range of emotions and by developing a broader repertoire of coping strategies for life's challenges, Susan's clients learn to have a healthy relationship with food and with their bodies, even in a society obsessed with appearance and the "perfect" body.

David Nicholson, LMFT

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

The binge and purge cycle can take over your life: low self esteem (combined with poor body image) can include intense feelings like you cannot stand yourself or is too hard and you cannot control it. I offer help to end this cycle compassionately and effectively with EMDR therapy. We will focus on your triggers and improving your self concept. You can change and take control in a positive way.

Jean Eljay, MS, PhD, CNLP, CH, AdvHC

Certified Advanced Hypnotist and NeuraLinguistic Programmer

Eating disorders are a broad spectrum of “too much” behaviors. They can stem from always seeing that image of that potato chip and not being able to say “no”. Or they may be much more serious. Indeed in my 20 year experience, eating problems are not usually related to food, but are related to unresolved or suppressed emotions. Using advanced techniques, we aim for a personal and confidential release of those emotional weights, freeing you to make healthier and ultimately beneficial choices.

Paulina Posatko, MFT

Marriage and Family Therapist

Eating disorders like anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and overeating can be very difficult to cope with, not just for the person with the disorder, but also for their family members. My goal is to get to the bottom of the negative self-thoughts that are fueling the disorder and building up positive thoughts and emotions in order to take the power away from the disorder.

Gabriel Newman, Ph.D.

Licensed Clinical Psychologist

We have several expertises within the practice that can help with eating disorders, and we work as a team to provide what the patient needs. Since medical psychology is actively practiced by us, we do not shirk from confronting the dietary and health concerns that come with this area of challenge, and will work cooperatively with physicians, as needed, to improve the patient's situation. Ultimately, we beileve that the primary work is in the head, changing the way a person feels and believes about food. On the way there, however, there is a lot that can be done, behaviorally and physiologically, to effect change.